Shift Leader – Mechanical

Location            Huyton

Salary               £55,000 + pension + 28 – 33 days holiday + progression opportunities    

Hours               3 on 3 off   -  3 days | 3 off | 3 nights | 3 off   

A genuinely superb & quite unique opportunity for a shift leader or maintenance engineer to join a market leading business to help setting up and shaping a department.

• Brand new state of the art facility with plans for rapid expansion in the near future.
• Extremely stable and well run company with a track record of reinvestment into people and facilities.
• Lots of career development opportunities  
• Clean & safe environment making sustainable, in demand, every day products in a very stable industry sector.

The Job:

• Be part of a team to initially help set up the plant / factory, assist with installation and commissioning of new machinery and equipment.  
• Responsible for operating, monitoring, and maintaining the converting lines.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team of operators.
• Troubleshoot / maintain manufacturing and materials handling machinery such as, conveyors, high speed materials processing machines, pneumatics, PLC’s, bearings, wrappers, palletisers, packaging machinery.

The Person:

• Seeking 1 x Electrical bias & 1 x Mechanical bias
• Apprentice trained, NVQ 3, ONC, HNC
• Good communication, stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills important.
• Manufacturing plant experience eg materials, packaging, FMCG, food, automated warehousing, stackers, sorters / sortation, robotics, sensors, scanners, labellers, conveyors, printing, materials handling, glass, plastics, paper, converting, metals, medical, pharmaceutical.
• May suit a maintenance engineer / technician seeking more of a leadership role.

To apply please send CV to Tim Fawcett at Control Recruitment Solutions or call the office number.

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